The Aryan Path October 1947

And following the precedent initiated by their likminded fellow-countrymen of the previous generation both the Singer of Santiniketan and the Spinner of Sevagram raised their banner of 'revolt against the " proselytising " of the young by the politics and polish of the money-minded civilistion from across the seas. [...] And the ploughman-cum-spinner confirmed the perpetual presence of the " One in the play of the many " from his side :- " He ( God ) is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. [...] The fear of germs—most of which are beneficial—others being of the nture of scavengers—has led to the abuse of animals in the production of lymph antitoxin and other morbid substances. [...] For the medieval world the philosophy which flowered so luxuriantly and splendidly in such majesties of the human mind as the Summa of Saint Thomas Aquinas or the Divitia Comedia of Dante though the hanmaid of faith was yet the most regal of human enterprises. [...] MELVILLE CHANING-PEARCE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Can there be cultivated callousness to animal suffering on the part of the few and a readiness on the part of many to profit by the exploitation of helpless creatures and the natural sympathy of man for man be unaffeced ? The horrible excesses of the last war coming in the wake of long deades of slaughter trapping vivisection give the answer—N